spice-vdagent - Spice guest agent X11 session agent
The spice guest agent for Linux consists of 2 parts, a system wide daemon
spice-vdagentd and a X11 session agent spice-vdagent of which
there is one per X11 session.
spice-vdagent gets automatically started in desktop environments which
honor /etc/xdg/autostart, and under gdm.
The spice guest agent adds the following features to spice Linux guests:
Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse
lag)
Automatic adjustment of the X11 session's number of virtual
monitors, and their resolution, to the number of client windows and their
resolution
Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X11
session and the client, this supports both the primary selection and the
clipboard
Support for transferring files from the client to the agent
- -h
- Print a short description of all command line options
- -d
- Log debug messages
- -s port
- Set virtio serial port (default:
/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0)
- -x
- Don't daemonize
- -f dir|xdg-desktop|xdg-download
- Set directory where to save files send from the client, this can be either
an arbitrary dir or one of the special values of xdg-desktop
or xdg-download to select the default xdg Desktop resp. xdg
Download directory. If no value is specified the default is
xdg-desktop when running under a Desktop Environment which has
icons on the desktop and xdg-download under other Desktop
Environments
- -o 0|1
- Disable/enable opening the file save directory with xdg-open (showing the
directory in the file manager) when a file transfer from the client
completes. If no value is specified the default is 0 when running
under a Desktop Environment which has icons on the desktop and 1
under other Desktop Environments
Copyright 2010-2013 Red Hat, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
